Write for Crypt Weekly: guest posts on privacy & policy, data breaches, cyber attacks, tech news, vulnerabilities, malware & ransomware
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Get your story read by students and people entering security
Guest posts and sponsored articles on privacy & policy, data breaches, cyber attacks, tech news, vulnerabilities, malware & ransomware, published fast and kept online for good.
- Published within 48 hours: once your article is approved by our editors.
- Indexed the same day: every new article is submitted for search indexing and added to our news sitemap and RSS feed.
- Permanent placement: your article stays online at its own address, with your byline and bio.
- Relevant readers: an audience that follows privacy & policy, data breaches, cyber attacks, tech news, vulnerabilities, malware & ransomware every day.
- Clear, honest labelling: paid articles are marked Sponsored, which keeps them, and your brand, in line with search rules.
What we publish
Practical, expert articles our readers can act on: analysis of new threats, lessons from incidents, how-to guides for defenders, and informed takes on technology and security trends. Topics we cover:
- Privacy & Policy
- Data Breaches
- Cyber Attacks
- Tech News
- Vulnerabilities
- Malware & Ransomware
Guidelines
- Original and unpublished, 800 to 2,000 words
- Facts backed by sources, linked in the text
- No sales pitch in the body; one short author bio with a link
- Images you own or may use, with credit
How to pitch
Email a pitch with a proposed headline, a short outline and links to one or two pieces you have written before. Write to newsroom@cryptweekly.com with "Guest post" in the subject line. We reply to every pitch, usually within two working days.
Sponsored articles
Every submission is reviewed by our editors: it must be original, accurate, useful to our readers and free of claims we cannot check. Articles written for a fee or containing commercial links are published as sponsored content, labelled "Sponsored", with links marked rel="sponsored". We edit for clarity and accuracy and decline topics outside our coverage, gambling, adult content and anything that promotes harm.